10 Quotes by Ahmet Altan

By simply putting away the mirrors, they had erased us from life...

they may have the power to imprison me but no one has the power to keep me in prison”, because “wherever you lock me up I will travel the world with the wings of my endless mind … Like all writers, I have magic. I can pass through walls with ease.

They may have the power to imprison me but no one has the power to keep me in prison

I talk all day with people who are seen and heard by no one, people who don’t exist and won’t exist until the day I mention them … As I don’t want to put them on paper in prison, I inscribe all of this into the crannies of my mind with the dark ink of memory.

I talk all day with people who are seen and heard by no one, people who don’t exist and won’t exist until the day I mention them. I listen as they converse among themselves. I live their loves, their adventures, their hopes, worries and joys. I sometimes chuckle as I pace the courtyard, because I overhear their rather entertaining conversations. As I don’t want to put them on paper in prison I inscribe all of this into the crannies of my mind with the dark ink of memory.

Ölümden korktuğumuzdan değil yaşadığımız, biz savaşmayı sevdiğimizden yaşarız.

Hiçbir zaman başka bir insanı, o insan en yakınımız olsa bile, tümüyle tanıyamayacağımızı, iki insanın arasında daima görülemez karanlık alanların bulunacağını, iki insanın asla tam anlamıyla bütünleşemeyeceğini fark edip kendimizi bu dünyada yapayalnız hisseder; yüzünü gördüğümüz, sesini duyduğumuz, günlerce aylarca hatta yıllarca konuştuğumuz, birlikte en gizli zevkleri paylaştığımız birinin nasıl olup da bize yabancı olabildiğini anlayamamanın çaresizliğini yaşadık.

They may have the power to imprison me but no one has the power to keep me in prison.

The eternity of death has the power to trivialize even the most terrifying moments of life.